Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Archaeologists were excavating a site at Belvoir, the historic home of Francis Scott Key’s grandmother, in Crownsville, Maryland. They were looking for the Revolutionary War encampment of French commander Rochambeau, but what they found turned out to be much more important in its implications for future research.
They found the brick floor of the site’s slave quarters.A team from the Maryland Department of Transportation, State Highway Administration, began excavating the 32-by-32-foot building in 2014. Julie Schablitsky, chief archaeologist with the department, noticed a pipe stem sticking out of the brick floor and…
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